Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . were specially guilty, but those who were most polit-ically marked as patrician leaders. With them fell a thousand equites, common-ers of fortune, who had thrown in their lot with the aristocracy. From retalia-tory political revenge the transition was easy to pillage and wholesale murder ;and for many days the wretched city was made a prey to robbers and cut-throats. So ended the year 87, the darkest and bloodiest which the guilty city had yetexp
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . were specially guilty, but those who were most polit-ically marked as patrician leaders. With them fell a thousand equites, common-ers of fortune, who had thrown in their lot with the aristocracy. From retalia-tory political revenge the transition was easy to pillage and wholesale murder ;and for many days the wretched city was made a prey to robbers and cut-throats. So ended the year 87, the darkest and bloodiest which the guilty city had yetexperienced. Marius and Cinna were chosen consuls for the year ensuing, anda witches prophecy was fulfilled, that Marius should have a seventh the glory had departed from him. His sun was already setting, redly,among crimson clouds. He lived but a fortnight after his inauguration, and hedied in his bed on the 13th of January, at the age of seventy-one. The mother of the Gracchi, said Mirabeau, cast the dust of her mur-dered sons into the air, and out of it sprang Caius Marius. JULIUS CyESAR By E. Spencer Beesly, (100-44 i^-c.). R OME solved the great political prob-lem of the ancient world in the bestpracticable, if not in the best conceiv-able, way. To Caesar it fell to put thecrowning stroke to that work. Theseveral states of modern Europe haveall contributed, though in different de-grees, to political progress, and thereforeno one of them has the unique import-ance and glory that belongs to the same reason, no modern states-man stands on a level with Caesar. Heremains, in Shakespeares phrase, theforemost man of all this world. It wasthe high fortune of Rome that, in theprincipal crisis of her history, she pos-sessed a citizen so splendidly endowedin intellect, character, and heart. Free to an extraordinary degree from the prej-udices belonging to his age and country, with piercing and far-sweeping vision,he saw as from some superior height, the polit
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